I am a photographic artist with a practice that is research based and process led. Themes of fragility, transience and the universality of our shared human condition underlie my work. Inspired by art history and by my own lived experience, I employ the medium of photography as the final distillation of a creative process that encompasses acts of fabrication, manipulation and disruption. These feed my interest in the relationship between two and three dimensions, explored both through crafting objects that I then re-present on the flat photographic plane or through physically or digitally manipulating the photographic prints themselves.
I combine the allure of beauty with an undercurrent of disquiet, this opposition provides a vehicle to interrogate the contradictory nature of our world. Often minimal in appearance and presenting a study in positive and negative space, my constructed images involve photography in a process of revelation, concealment and absence.
I approach photography as an instrument of illusion, to beguile rather than document. By exploring the potential of the photographic object to conjure new meaning, I invite the viewer to reflect and to question what lies beyond the image.